Opera 50.0.2762.67: security fixes for Meltdown and Spectre

The latest version of Opera contains changes meant to mitigate the Spectre and Meltdown CPU vulnerabilities. Effectively, it’s now more difficult to exploit the vulnerabilities using Javascript running in Opera. Similar changes have already been made in the other major browsers.

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New white paper confirms that compromising encryption (to make law enforcement a bit easier) is a very bad idea. AG and FBI officials are really just advertising their own weakness when they complain about this. techdirt.com/article…

Describing his hobby as 'fun' and saying “I never intended for anyone to get shot and killed”, this serial Swatter will hopefully get 10+ years behind bars for his role in a Kansas death-by-SWAT. krebsonsecurity.com/…